“Stan Gable: [to Booger] What are you looking at, nerd? Booger: [to himself] I thought I was looking at my mother's old douchebag, but that's in Ohio.”— Tim Metcalfe, Miguel Tejada-Flores, Jeff Buhai, Steve Zacharias, 'Booger' Dawson, Curtis Armstrong, imdb.com
“I live in Ohio. And anyone that knows anything about Ohio knows that even the word 'Ohio' is an old Native American word. It means, literally, uh, 'land of poor white people.' And I don’t know what’s going on down here, but in my experience, uh, poor white people love, and, I mean, they fucking love…”— Dave Chappelle, Himself, Dave Chappelle, imdb.com
“We have to face why Donald Trump won the election of 2016. He won by the numbers because we'd automated away four million manufacturing jobs in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Missouri, Iowa, all the swing states he needed to win and did win, and I have many friends who work in technology.…”— Andrew Yang, 2020poolreports.substack.com
“When somebody like Frederick Douglass wrote a book, he was writing to white people—legitimately—because he wanted them to behave, set him free. That was the audience. Not for me. Tolstoy was not writing for little girls from Ohio. He was writing for Russians, right? I’m writing to, about, and for ot…”— Toni Morrison, granta.com
“We ironed fall leaves between wax-paper sheets. We melted crayons into candles and froze Kool-Aid into popsicles. We poked cloves into oranges. We grew roots on sweet potatoes tooth-picked in water. We taped our broken glasses together and shut up. We made shoe-box dioramas with Play-Doh and modelin…”— Jim Daniels, apmpodcasts.org
“[confessing to Lucy he didn't know the answers] All I know is Columbus discover' Ohio in 1776.”— Jess Oppenheimer, Ricky Ricardo, Desi Arnaz, imdb.com
“I think we have some of the finest people in all of Ohio, if not the entire Midwest, right here.”— Martin Mull, youtube.com
“Go ahead and laugh. Just like they laughed at Columbus right before he discovered Ohio.”— Marc Sotkin, Andrew 'Squiggy' Squiggman, David L. Lander, imdb.com
“Jason Dean: Well, let's take a look at some of the homosexual artifacts I dug up to plant at the scene. All right. Got an issue of Stud Puppy. Veronica: [laughs] Great! Jason Dean: Candy dish. Joan Crawford postcard. Let's see, some mascara. All right. And here's the one perfecto thing I picked up:…”— Daniel Waters, Jason Dean, Christian Slater, amazon.com